Short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video by James Laughlin discussing how adults with ADHD often apply harsher, self-directed labels (e.g., "lazy," "stupid," "dumb") than the diagnostic label ADHD itself, and how receiving a diagnosis can trigger grief as people realize they might have shown themselves more compassion earlier.
People go, oh, I don't want the label. Right? And I am so anti that, because.
I think that.
It'S been my experience from working with.
Adults with ADHD that.
They gave themselves a label, and it is a lot more nasty than adhd. They've called themselves lazy, stupid, dumb. They almost grieve when they get their ADHD diagnosis because they have. They recognize that things could have been a lot easier for them had they given themselves some grace or.
Some compassion.
Or known how.
To make their different brain work for them.
